Intel Core i3-7130U vs AMD FX-6300

Core i3-7130U vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i3-7130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6300 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7130U. Indeed, the FX-6300 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7130U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7130U. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7130U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.